Airline stocks fall with Continental Airlines

ChristopherHinton

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Airline stocks fell sharply Friday morning with the wider market and following a Continental Airlines report that showed the erosion in its monthly revenue accelerated in September. At last check, the NYSE Arca Airline Index
XAL, +0.76%
fell 2.5% o 25.72 points with all of its 13 components deep into the red. Continental
CAL, +0.21%
fell nearly 3% to $14.64, American parent AMR Corp.
AMR, -2.86%
lost 4% to $6.94 and US Airways
LCC, +0.00%
declined 6% to $4. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
INDU, +0.36%
shed about 47 points to 9,462.

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